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dc.contributor.authorStone, Rachelen
dc.contributor.authorBennett, Judithen
dc.contributor.authorKarras, Ruth Mazoen
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-17T11:57:26Z
dc.date.available2017-10-17T11:57:26Z
dc.date.issued2013-01-01
dc.identifier.citationStone R (2013) 'Carolingian Domesticities', in Bennett J, Karras RM (ed(s).). The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: Oxford University Press.en
dc.identifier.isbn9780199582174
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199582174.013.004
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10547/622288
dc.description.abstractCarolingian ideas of "home" and "family" encompassed a wide range of meanings from physical buildings to kin and free and unfree dependents. Kinship ties played a vital role, both socially and politically, and marriage practices reflected that; Carolingian reforms respected parents' strategies concerning their children's marriages. The Frankish economy was structured around nuclear households, from peasant tenancies to the huge estates presided over by noble men and women. Male and female activities in both production and consumption were partially, but not completely gender-specific. Dowries provided some economic independence for women, but female wealth often depended on contingent factors such as family size and the attitudes of male relatives. The ordered conjugal household was an important image in Carolingian moral thought, with married women holding a subordinate, but honored position. Frankish ideology focused more on elite women's role in the management of dependents and social networks than on purely "housewifely" activities.
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen
dc.relation.urlhttp://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199582174.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199582174-e-004DO - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199582174.013.004en
dc.subjecthistoryen
dc.subjectmedievalen
dc.titleCarolingian Domesticitiesen
dc.title.alternativeThe Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europeen
dc.typeBook chapteren
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Bedfordshireen
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Southern Californiaen
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Minnesotaen
dc.date.updated2017-10-12T23:18:03Z
html.description.abstractCarolingian ideas of "home" and "family" encompassed a wide range of meanings from physical buildings to kin and free and unfree dependents. Kinship ties played a vital role, both socially and politically, and marriage practices reflected that; Carolingian reforms respected parents' strategies concerning their children's marriages. The Frankish economy was structured around nuclear households, from peasant tenancies to the huge estates presided over by noble men and women. Male and female activities in both production and consumption were partially, but not completely gender-specific. Dowries provided some economic independence for women, but female wealth often depended on contingent factors such as family size and the attitudes of male relatives. The ordered conjugal household was an important image in Carolingian moral thought, with married women holding a subordinate, but honored position. Frankish ideology focused more on elite women's role in the management of dependents and social networks than on purely "housewifely" activities.


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